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Mount in Forest Grove, Florida. But despite being charged, he was acquitted in 1984.

Months later, in October 1984, he was charged with attacking a woman n San Diego. Little avoided a more erious charge when he agreed to plead guilty to assault and false imprisonment and served two and a half years.

On his release he moved to southern California where in 1987 Carol Alford was found murdered and Audrey Nelson found dumped in a skip two years later.

Guadalupe Apodaca’s body also turned up in an abandoned building in the state in 1989.

All three cases went cold until April 2012 when Roberts put DNA evidence found on the bodies into a national database. The results linked to Little who was finally traced to a Christian shelter in Louisville, Kentucky.

In 2014 he was put on trial and convicted of murder.

“This is a man … who believes he can take whatever he wants from women,” prosecutor Beth Silverman told the Los Angeles jury.

Now crippled by poor health and using a wheelchair, Bland speculates that Little has finally confessed after the appeals to his life sentence in California were rejected and he no longer has any reason to hide his guilt.

However police warn that any hope relatives of his victims have that he is showing some remorse for his crimes is sorely misplaced.

As one detective who recently interviewed the killer said in his report, Little “advised that God put him on this Earth to do what he was doing”.

Audrey Nelson’s daughter Pearl with Mary Louise Frias, the god-daughter of Guadalupe Apodaca, after Little’s sentencing in 2015 Samuel Little in the 1980s, left, and in his most recent mugshot

BRISTLING Jamie Dornan and, left, Matthew Rhys